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Hamilton College Professor Receives NSF Award

By staff | Contact staff Posted February 27, 1998

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Barbara Tewksbury, professor of geology at
Hamilton College recently received a grant from the National Science Foundation
for her project proposal "Preparing the New Generation of Geoscience Faculty:
Workshops to Shape the Future."

The project is designed to prepare early career geoscience faculty to teach at
the undergraduate level and consists of four-day workshops that will be offered
annually for the next 3 years.

The workshops will address a variety of topics, including the basics of
teaching, active learning strategies, supervision of undergraduate research,
grading and assessment and life as a new faculty member.

A series of follow-up activities, which includes the development of a website
and presentations at professional meetings, is also planned. The goal of the
project is to provide concrete suggestions about "what works" in undergraduate
geoscience teaching and to produce more effective teachers. Tewksbury is
working in conjunction with geoscience faculty from the College of William and
Mary and the University of Arizona. The first workshop will be offered in
August.

Last October, Tewksbury was named the 1997 New York professor of the
year by the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching.